In his liner notes, Wax Poetics magazine editor-in-chief Andre Torres calls that album, “the brilliant bookend to a classic hip-hop trilogy… Though Millions is the more critically acclaimed and well-known, an argument could be made for Fear’s triumph as the strongest album of the three.” It challenged the concept of reinvention in recorded music,” writes The Roots’ Amir “Questlove” Thompson in the booklet that is included in the deluxe two-CD/DVD reissue of the album on Def Jam/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), which will be released on November 25, 2014, along with its well-regarded follow-up, Fear of a Black Planet, which came out just two years later. When Public Enemy’s second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, was released in 1988, “it completely upended the way records are made. New packages include original albums and rare bonus tracks, with booklets featuring essays by The Roots’ Questlove and Wax Poetics’ Andre Torres PUBLIC ENEMY’S 1988 CLASSIC IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK AND 1990’S FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET TO BE RELEASED AS MULTI-DISC DELUXE EDITIONS FOR DEF JAM/UME
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